, a Justice of the peace within & for thecounty of PikePike , in the State of Misssouri, do hereby certify, that Emily Stewart, & Phineas Block, the deponents were by me severally sworn to testify the whole truth of theirknowledge, touching the matter in controversy aforesaid that they were examined, and their examination redu-ced to writing, & by them, respectively subscribed in my presence, on the day, between the hours, and at theplace in that behalf first aforesaid.